CYRUS S. NEWLON
Cyrus Newlon came from Edgar county, Illinois, in June, 1858, and located on section 31. He remained till 1873, when he removed to Atlantic.
Cyrus S. Newlon was born in Edgar county, Illinois, in September, 1827, and is the son of Hiram and Margaret (Fields) Newlon. He spent his early life there, and was married there in 1848, to Jannette Middleton, a native of Vigo county, Indiana. They have four children--H. S., the eldest, is in the agricultural implement business in Atlantic; J. C, a graduate of the Keokuk Medical Institute, is practicing medicine in Carmi, Illinois; Ida M. is now the wife of John Southwick; their youngest child, Magnolia, resides with her parents. He came to this county in 1858, locating at what is called Newlon's Grove, in Union township. He improved one hundred and sixty-six acres of land, and made his home on it, till 1873, when he came to Atlantic to reside. He lived a retired life for three or four years, and then engaged in the agricultural implement business, which still occupies his attention. He has held the office of justice of the peace and other minor positions, and was one of the members of the first board of supervisors of Cass county. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. The family are identified with the Presbyterian Church.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 734.
